Education charity focussed on the academic attainment, career prospects, and social mobility of young black state school-educated students in London.
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ACDiversity retweeted
How do we get just as far without working twice as hard?
Join a panel of unapologetically Black people exploring this question and more this Thursday 22 April at 6pm. This is event 1 of 3 in the Working While Black series
Tickets at eventbrite.com/e/working-whi…
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@acdiversity @ubeleinitiative @pocimpact @hustlecrewlive @TheBlakademik this event might be really in line with you guys! could you please RT and help @jj_talks get more eyes on it? 👀
Just 3 more days till the Ethnic Diversity in the City and Corporate UK Summit! Topics include ethnic diversity in the boardroom and unconscious bias recruitment. Follow @cfconferences for more info. #RacialDiversity
We're looking forward to the Ethnic Diversity in the City and Corporate UK Summit on 21st January! Speakers include @Drtonysewell & @JohnGlenUK. Follow @cfconferences for more info. #RacialDiversity
Nearly 50% of all schools in England have no Black or minority ethnic teachers. Where there is Black (or Brown) staff, the senior leadership teams are mostly all white, UCL’s Institute for Education have found.
#BlackTeachersMatter
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ACDiversity retweeted
Boston health care workers dancing on the sidewalk to celebrate the arrival of the first covid-19 vaccine.
Speakers at the ‘Ethnic Diversity in the City and Corporate UK (virtual) Summit’, include:-
> Asahi Pompey - President, Goldman Sachs Foundation and Global Head of Corporate Engagement Goldman Sachs
> Richard Iferenta - Vice Chair, KPMG & Chair, Race Equality Leadership Team
We @acdiversity are delighted to be supporters of this much needed event. We are especially keen to identify the challenges Black professionals face while making their way up the c-suite and exploring how these can be removed. #RacialEquality
As we launch new Learning Marathons for 2021, we’re boosting our inclusion strategy 🚀
Read how below:
medium.com/enrol-yourself/st…
Ft. partnerships with @acdiversity @Amaliah_Tweets @CoachBrightUK @FutureWorkInst @JoCoxFoundation @BeckettAlumni and @street_space_
We @acdiversity are delighted to be supporters of this much needed event. We are especially keen to identify the challenges Black professionals face while making their way up the c-suite and exploring how these can be removed. #RacialEquality
We are delighted to announce that the Ethnic Diversity in the City and Corporate UK Summit will take place on the 21st of January 2021!
We are so excited to support @cfconferences with this #RacialDiversity event. Book your place now (with discount): buff.ly/3fRt2yu
ACDiversity retweeted
The @acdiversity Bursary will fund 1 place for young black Londoners (aged 18–25), and 1 place for black men on the #LearningMarathon in 2021
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ACDiversity retweeted
Tune in tonight Sunday 11th 06:20pm to @Channel4News to see a young Black scientist featured. Her name is Morgan Palton and she is @acdiversity alumna. #BlackHistoryMonthUK
@colinmcfarlane @bonsuman
youtube.com/watch?v=he3tPGh9…
I've just signed the petition calling on @BorisJohnson and @RishiSunak to make sure #UniversalCredit is putting more money in people’s pockets so we can get through this crisis. Will you join me? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitio… via @38_degrees
Prospective teachers appear more likely to misperceive Black children as angry than white children. This anger bias can have huge consequences as it can lead to Black children being disciplined unfairly and suspended more often from school. 1/3
sciencedaily.com/releases/20…
This can have long-term ramifications as common racist misperceptions can extend from school into adulthood and "potentially have fatal consequences, such as when police officers kill unarmed Black people on the street or in their own homes." 2/3
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When racial profiling in relation to stop and search is so deep-seated that it affects black MPs as well as the police force's *own BME staff*, you know it's not just a question of a few "bad apples". This is a systemic problem and this is the definition of institutional racism.
NEW: A senior black police inspector has complained of racial harassment to the Metropolitan Police after being stopped in his car by two white officers bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lo…
Another reminder that Government studies have revealed evidence that there is racial bias with teacher assessments in England & Wales.
Black & Asian students have been written out of #examshambles U-turn story. Attention now on uni places, yet all the evidence points to racial bias in the system now being used - teacher assessments. Here's the government's own report saying so: assets.publishing.service.go…
Important thread from Interim Director, Liberty @graciemaybe. She reminds us that @RunnymedeTrust
wrote to govt back in April, "teachers expectations of black students and their working class peers tend to be systematically lower than warranted by their performance in class".
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